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I believe linear time is merely a "subjective" category of thought and perception and not an objective physical property of the external world, and infinity, I think, is merely a symptom of the human mind's inability to experience the world as it truly is with respect to time, where everything happens at once, called, in Hindu philosophy, the Eternal Now. One only has to examine the characteristics of our experience of time to realize that the past and future exist "now" beyond our illusory experience of the present which is nothing more than an extremely minute and insignificant "point" or "slit" in some incomprehensible state of things where everything happens at once. The present may be thought of as a “cross-section” of time, a “cross-section of reality that exists simultaneously in the past, present and future. The so-called present does not exist in any real sense of the word because it cannot be captured or measured as any specific moment in time or any specific amount of time. And infinity may represent a kind of "curve of thought" appearing at the two opposite "ends" of time, the infinite past and the infinite future, and, thus, mark out the limitations of the human mind as the external world seems to extend beyond our comprehension, stretching our thought to dissolution. The same can be said for three-dimensional space which is marked by infinity in two opposite directions as well, the infinitely large and the infinitely small. Just as all things happen at once, it may be said that all things are one and three-dimensional space may be, similarly, nothing more than a category of thought and perception and not a physical property of the external world. That being said, it seems to me that each of us may learn to perceive the external world as it truly is by simply understanding the nature of experience of time and our perception of space and determining the possible nature of a world approaching a state of timeless unity. In this sense, it may be asserted that the external world, including everything in the entire universe, may be purely mental in substance, form and function, and the universe may, in fact, exist “within” us, not outside us, and the answers to all that we strive to learn about the universe already exists potentially within us. No need for theories, just self-knowledge and understanding—at least, I’d like to believe so—and that’s my crazy theory.
"Each conscious mind is alone in the universe!"
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